CEACAM7 explained

Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CEACAM7 gene.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Further reading

• Douard R, Wind P, Sales JP . Long-term prognostic value of detection of circulating colorectal cancer cells using CGM2 reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assay. . Surgery . 139 . 4 . 556–62 . 2006 . 16627067 . 10.1016/j.surg.2005.09.025 . etal.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . etal.
• Zhang Z, Henzel WJ . Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites. . Protein Sci. . 13 . 10 . 2819–24 . 2005 . 15340161 . 10.1110/ps.04682504 . 2286551 .
• Grimwood J, Gordon LA, Olsen A . The DNA sequence and biology of human chromosome 19. . Nature . 428 . 6982 . 529–35 . 2004 . 15057824 . 10.1038/nature02399 . 2004Natur.428..529G . etal. free .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . etal. free .
• Schölzel S, Zimmermann W, Schwarzkopf G . Carcinoembryonic antigen family members CEACAM6 and CEACAM7 are differentially expressed in normal tissues and oppositely deregulated in hyperplastic colorectal polyps and early adenomas. . Am. J. Pathol. . 156 . 2 . 595–605 . 2000 . 10666389 . 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)64764-5. 1850034 . etal.
• Frängsmyr L, Baranov V, Hammarström S . Four carcinoembryonic antigen subfamily members, CEA, NCA, BGP and CGM2, selectively expressed in the normal human colonic epithelium, are integral components of the fuzzy coat. . Tumour Biol. . 20 . 5 . 277–92 . 1999 . 10436421 . 10.1159/000030075 . 46856322 .
• Kinugasa T, Kuroki M, Takeo H . Expression of four CEA family antigens (CEA, NCA, BGP and CGM2) in normal and cancerous gastric epithelial cells: up-regulation of BGP and CGM2 in carcinomas. . Int. J. Cancer . 76 . 1 . 148–53 . 1998 . 9533775 . 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980330)76:1<148::AID-IJC23>3.0.CO;2-7 . etal. free .
• Thompson JA, Mauch EM, Chen FS . Analysis of the size of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) gene family: isolation and sequencing of N-terminal domain exons. . Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. . 158 . 3 . 996–1004 . 1989 . 2537643 . 10.1016/0006-291X(89)92821-0 . etal. 10.1.1.657.2780 .
• Khan WN, Frängsmyr L, Teglund S . Identification of three new genes and estimation of the size of the carcinoembryonic antigen family. . Genomics . 14 . 2 . 384–90 . 1992 . 1427854 . 10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80230-7 . etal.

Notes and References

1. Thompson J, Zimmermann W, Nollau P, Neumaier M, Weber-Arden J, Schrewe H, Craig I, Willcocks T . CGM2, a member of the carcinoembryonic antigen gene family is down-regulated in colorectal carcinomas . J Biol Chem . 269 . 52 . 32924–31 . Jan 1995 . 10.1016/S0021-9258(20)30079-X . 7806520 . free .
2. Thompson J, Seitz M, Chastre E, Ditter M, Aldrian C, Gespach C, Zimmermann W . Down-regulation of carcinoembryonic antigen family member 2 expression is an early event in colorectal tumorigenesis . Cancer Res . 57 . 9 . 1776–84 . May 1997 . 9135022 .
3. Web site: Entrez Gene: CEACAM7 carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 7.